N&tiorval  Municipal  Review 

PUBLISHED  BY  THE  NATIONAL  MUNICIPAL  LEAGUE 


Editor,  CLINTON  ROGERS  WOODRUFF 
Secretary,  National  Municipal  League 
121,  South  Broad  Street 
Philadelphia 

ASSOCIATE  EDITORS 

CHARLES  A.  BEARD,  New  York 
JOHN  A.  FAIRLIE,  Urbaoa,  IU. 

ARTHUR  CROSBY  LUDINGTON,  New  York 


ADVISORY  EDITORIAL  BOARD 


Morton  A.  Aldrich,  New  Orleans 
M.  N.  Baker,  New  York 
Roger  N.  Baldwin,  St.  Louis 
Richard  S.  Childs,  New  York 
Frederick  A.  Cleveland,  Washington 
Horace  E.  Deming,  New  York 
Mayo  Fesler,  Cleveland 
William  H.  Glasson,  Durham,  N.  C. 
Murray  Cross,  Philadelphia 


L.  S.  ROWE,  Chairman,  Philadelphia 
Augustus  Raymond  Hatton,  Cleveland 
A.  N.  Holcombe,  Cambridge 
George  E.  Hooker,  Chicago 
Stiles  P.  Jones,  Minneapolis 
J.  Horace  McFarland,  Harrisburg 
Milo  R.  Maltbie,  New  York 
Ford  H.  MacGregor,  Madison,  Wis. 
Charles  E.  Merriam,  Chicago 
Richard  W.  Montague,  Portland,  Ore. 
John  Nolen,  Cambridge 


C.  S.  Potts,  Austin,  Texas 
L.  G.  Powers,  Washington,  D.  C. 
S.  H.  Ranck,  Grand  Rapids 
Edward  M.  Sait,  New  York 
W.  J.  Shepard,  Columbia,  Mo. 

J.  Allen  Smith,  Seattle 
Delos  F.  Wilcox,  New  York 
Charles  D.  Willard,  Los  Angeles 
E.  A.  Walcott,  San  Francisco 


January  30,  1913. 


REV/S 


For  Professor  Fairlie:- 

Here  is  a  report  from  Munro  as  chairman 
of  the  committee  on  municipal  affairs  of  the  Boston 
Chamber  of  Commerce,  which  might  be  referred  to  briefly 
in  your  department. 


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Monday,  November  18,  1912 


CHAMBER  OF  COMMERCE  NEWS 


Obtained  legislation  authorizing  the  use  of  school 
property  for  social  and  civic  purposes. 

Favored  a  resolve  providing  for  an  investigation 
for  the  purpose  of  securing  plans  for  the  exten¬ 
sion  of  the  present  State  House  in  conformity  with 
the  existing  architectural  design. 

Demonstrated  to  the  legislature  the  value  to  the 
industries  of  the  state  of  the  holding  of  the  Fifth 
International  Congress  of  Chambers  of  Commerce 
in  Boston,  and  procured  an  appropriation  of  $25,- 
000  for  the  entertainment  of  the  delegates. 

Among  those  upon  which  the  Chamber  took  ad¬ 
verse  action  and  which  were  rejected  by  the  Leg¬ 
islature  were: 

Amendments  to  the  Boston  City  Charter. 

Taxation  of  goods  in  storage  warehouses.  The 
Chamber  at  first  opposed  this  bill  inasmuch  as  it 
provided  for  taxation  upon  all  goods  in  storage 
on  April  1st  of  each  year  regardless  of  whether 
or  not  such  commodities  were  temporarily  stored 
awaiting  shipment.  The  Chamber  succeeded  in 
procuring  the  passage  of  an  amendment  to  this 
bill  so  as  to  exempt  goods  temporarily  stored  at 
Boston  for  foreign  shipment. 

Your  Committee  feels  that  during  the  session  of 
1913  further  improvement  can  be  made  in  the 
presentation  of  the  Chamber’s  views,  and  would 
again  urge  that  committees  of  the  Chamber  act 
as  promptly  as  possible  upon  all  matters  referred 
to  them  by  this  committee,  in  order  that  their  rec¬ 
ommendations  may  be  presented  at  the  regularly 
advertised  hearings  of  the  legislative  committees, 
thus  avoiding  postponements  and  delays,  as  prac¬ 
tically  all  of  the  committees  of  the  legislature  be¬ 
fore  whom  we  are  likely  to  appear  have  too  little 
time  for  the  proper  consideration  of  the  numerous 
bills  referred  to  them,  and  delays  cause  vexatious 
confusion.  We  also  urge  that  the  chairmen  of  com¬ 
mittees  keep  in  close  touch  with  the  Chamber’s 
legislative  counsel  in  regard  to  all  matters  upon 
which  their  committees  desire  to  take  action,  as 
such  co-operation  will  be  a  great  help  in  getting 
results.  The  session  of  1913  will  be  called  upon 
to  consider  a  great  many  matters  of  importance, 
and  your  committee  feels  that  the  Chamber  will 
be  better  equipped  than  ever  before  to  express 
the  views  of  the  business  community  if  the  above 
recommendations  are  followed  out.  All  bills  pre¬ 
sented  to  the  Legislature  will  be  referred  to  the 
appropriate  committees  of  the  Chamber  as  soon 
as  printed,  committees  will  be  notified  of  hearings 
as  soon  as  advertised,  and  all  necessary  assist¬ 
ance  will  be  rendered  by  the  legislative  counsel. 

March  G.  Bennett,  Acting  Chairman 

Leon  R.  Eyges 

Associate  Members  Randolph  Frothingham 

Andrew  A.  Casassa  Louis  F.  R.  Langelier 

Warren  H.  Colson  Amos  R.  uittle 

Horace  G.  Pender  William  Odlin 


MARITIME  AFFAIRS 


This  short  year  has  been  a  busy  one  for  the 
Committee  on  Maritime  Affairs.  Some  sixty  sub¬ 
jects,  every  one  of  public  import,  have  been  con¬ 
sidered,  and  most  of  them  acted  upon  and  finally 
settled.  To  accomplish  this,  great  credit  is  due 
to  the  tireless  energy  of  many  small  sub-commit¬ 
tees,  who  have  devoted  time  and  ability  without 
stint,  to  the  matters  in  hand.  The  general  commit¬ 
tee  of  fourteen  has  met  at  least  once  in  two  weeks, 
and  has  discussed  with  great  care  and  delibera¬ 
tion  the  recommendations  put  before  them.  Not 
only  have  we  been  fortunate  in  the  variety  of  ex¬ 
perience  and  ability  that  the  individual  composition 
of  the  committee  has  brought  to  the  maritime  af¬ 
fairs  considered,  but  we  have  been  aided  by  the 
knowledge  and  enthusiasm  of  the  former  chair¬ 
man,  now  serving  as  Honorary  Chairman. 

The  improvement  of  the  United  States  Steam¬ 
boat  Inspection  Service,  before  us  last  year,  still 
continues  with  us,  greatly  accentuated  by  the  ter¬ 
rible  tragedy  of  the  "Titanic.”  Our  Chamber 
should,  in  co-operation  with  the  Department  of 
Commerce  and  Labor,  advocate  the  strengthening 
of  this  Government  Service  until  in  skill  and  judg¬ 
ment  it  is  fully  abreast  of  the  requirements  of 
modern  ship  construction,  upkeep  and  navigation. 
This  country  has  a  variety  of  vessels  from  the  long 
legged  type  circling  Cape  Cod  to  the  shoal  draft 
craft  on  the  Y'ukon  River  and  from  the  Transat¬ 
lantic  mail  and  passenger  liner  to  the  noisy  little 
motor  boat — each  with  one  or  more  lives  aboard — 
needing  protection  and  oversight 

It  is  a  pleasure  to  report  that  after  five  years 
of  endeavor  on  the  part  of  this  Chamber,  and  its 
predecessor,  the  City  of  Boston  has  contracted  for 
the  construction  of  two  small  boat  landings,  one 
at  Northern  Avenue  Bridge,  and  the  other  at  Sum¬ 
mer  Street  Bridge  for  the  free  use  of  visiting 
vessels  and  our  public. 

We  have  co-operated  with  the  Lighthouse  Bu¬ 
reau  of  the  United  States  Government  in  approv¬ 
ing,  improving  and  reorganizing  the  system  of 
buoys,  ranges  and  other  navigation  marks  in  Bos¬ 
ton  harbor  and  at  other  points  along  our  coast 
especially  around  Cape  Cod. 

We  have  urged  the  experimental  dredging  by  the 


National  Government  of  a  straight  channel  through 
Pollock  Rip,  because  of  it  s  seeming  feasibility  and 
because  of  its  importance  to  vessels  and  lives  now 
using  that  tortuous  channel; 

We  have  presented  to  the  Directors  of  the  Port 
certain  considerations  res  lecting  the  dredging  and 
finishing  of  the  Reserved  Channel  at  South  Bos¬ 
ton,  respecting  the  prop  ir  marking  of  the  Bird 
Island  Flats  Anchorage  Lasin,  respecting  the  fu¬ 
ture  possibilities  of  development  of  T  wharf  when 
the  fishing  interests  leave  it; 

We  have  investigated  ^nd  approved,  and  advo¬ 
cated  before  the  Legislat  ve  Committee,  the  abol¬ 
ishment  of  the  useless  Cape  Cod  Pilot  Station  and 
the  equipment  of  the  pilot  boats  with  motor  pow¬ 
er — both  of  which  have  Been  done; 

We  have  studied  many  (legislative  bills  proposed 
to  the  Massachusetts  Legislature  and  to  Congress, 
as  they  have  been  referre(  1  to  us,  and  we  have  tried 
to  indicate  what  were  and  what  were  not  for  thp 
public  weal; 


We  have  shared  in  the 


enjoyment  and  entertain¬ 


ment  of  the  XII  International  Congress  of  Naviga 
tion  which  met  in  Philadelphia  in  May,  and  of  which 
some  eighty  delegates  visited  our  city  and  examin¬ 
ed  our  harbor; 

We  have  assisted  the  local  lumber  importers  to 
get  proper  and  convenient  surveying  done  by  the 
Treasury  Department; 

We  have  lent  a  willing  hand  to  help  stop  the 
motor  boat  noise  nuisance; 

We  have  urged  on  Congress  the  great  benefits 
to  American  shipping  and  to  this  and  to  other 
maritime  communities,  which  would  accrue  from  a 
remission  of  Panama  Canal  tolls  on  vessels  of 
American  registry  engaged  exclusively  in  American 
coastwise  work; 

And  we  have  with  enthusiasm  advocated  a  Fed¬ 
eral  Hospital  ship  for  deep  sea  fishermen,  either 
by  means  of  the  Gardner  bill  now  before  Con¬ 
gress  or  some  other  practical  measure. 

Boston  is  subject  to  excessive  tidal  variations 
from  prolonged  easterly  or  westerly  winds,  to  the 
confusion  of  shipping  using  this  harbor,  and  we 
again  urge  the  prompt  passage  of  this  Chamoer’s 
bill,  introduced  by  Congressman  Murray,  for  the 
construction  of  two  modern  tidal  gauges. 

Attention  has  been  called  by  our  committee  to 
the  inadequate  assembling  in  this  building  of  the 
maritime  work  of  the  Chamber  and  of  the  possi¬ 
bilities  of  the  developnrpnt  of  this  branch  of  the 
Chamber’s  activities,  if  froom  can  be  found. 

Our  deep  sea  fish  have  been  gathered  by  so- 
called  hand  line  methods  from  efficient  schooners 
manned  by  men  who  share  the  results.  Boston 
under  this  system  has  become  a  great  centre  for 
this  business,  the  value  of  the  fish  handled  an¬ 
nually  exceeding  $11,000,000.  During  the  last  few 
years  steam  otter  or  beam  trawlers  have  been  built 
and  introduced  here;  they  represent  the  most  mod¬ 
ern  methods  of  fishing  and  promise  to  largely  sup¬ 
plant  the  hand  liners.  A  sub-committee  gave 
many  hearings  to  the  interested  parties,  and  made 
a  comprehensive  report  of  both  sides  of  the  ques¬ 
tion.  Our  Committee  is  of  the  opinion  that  the 
qualified  United  States  Government  experts  and 
the  State  experts  should  determine  definitely  the 
effect  upon  the  future  supply  of  fish  of  this  new 
method,  and  legislation,  If  any,  should  follow  such 
findings.  By  authority  of  Congress  an  investiga¬ 
tion  is  now  being  made.  This  subject  is  of  im¬ 
portance  to  this  port  and  to  the  entire  country,  and 
deserves  the  continued  attention  of  this  Chamber 
of  Commerce  until  settled  rightly. 

It  is  with  the  greatest  possible  satisfaction  that 
the  Committee  as  a  whole  (and  individually)  has 
undertaken  to  discharge  its  obligations  to  the  mem¬ 
bers  of  this  Chamber  and  to  the  community  at 
large  in  guarding,  considering  and  supporting,  in 
so  far  as  it  has  deemed  it  wise,  the  proposals  of 
the  Directors  of  our  Port  for  the  upbuilding  of  our 
magnificent  harbor  and  port.  This  year  for  the 
first  time  in  the  history  of  Boston  an  executive 
and  administrative  body  clothed  with  authority 
has  begun  the  work.  The  results  are  already  ap¬ 
parent.  New  lines  of  steamers  are  promised,  the 
services  of  some  now  running  here  are  to  be 
strengthened,  inquiries  from  others  have  been  receiv¬ 
ed,  and  the  Directors  have  found  it  necessary  to  re¬ 
acquire  from  the  N.  Y.,  N.  H.  &  H.  R.  R.  the  Com¬ 
monwealth  pier  in  order  to  provide  as  quickly  as 
possible  for  this  increase  of  shipping.  Evidences 
of  new  life  in  our  maritime  interests  on  every  hand 
have  come  to  our  Committee.  Well  may  we  ex¬ 
pect  great  developments  in  the  near  future.  The 
Committee  has  studied  and  approved  the  cancellation 
by  the  Directors  of  the  Port  of  the  Railroad  lease 
of  Commonwealth  pier  and  has  likewise  advocated 
the  new  agreement  with  the  X.  Y„  X.  H.  &  H.  R.  R. 
Co.  Commonwealth  pier  when  the  houses  are 
built  and  the  street  and  railroad  connections  are 
made  will  be  a  modern  steamship  terminal  capa¬ 
ble  of  berthing  the  largest  and  finest  steamers 
afloat  with  every  opportunity  for  developing  the 
passenger  business  of  the  port.  This  is  merely 
the  beginning  of  an  undertaking  which  must  com¬ 
prehend  all  sides  of  our  harbor  and  future  com¬ 
mittees  on  Maritime  Affairs  should  continue  the  ' 


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intimate  relationship  with  the  work  of  the  Direct¬ 
ors  of  the  Port,  emphasizing  from  time  to  time 
the  development  most  needed  by  the  commercial 
interests,  and  upholding  the  hands  of  those  to 
whom  the  present  and  the  future  of  the  port  have 
been  entrusted. 

Jerome  Jones,  Honorary  Chairman 

William  C.  Brewer,  Chairman 
Edward  E.  Blodgett 
John  G.  Crowley 
Frederick  Foster 
Charles  E.  Gibson 
Theodore  Jones 
John  R.  Neal 
W.  Rodman  Peabody 

Associate  Members  E.  H.  Pentecost 

Edwin  R.  Booth  Charles  Skentelbery 

William  D.  Eaton  Fitz-Henry  Smith,  Jr. 


MEMBERSHIP 


The  aim  of  the  Committee  on  Membership  this 
year  has  been  to  build  up  for  the  Chamber  a  mem¬ 
bership  strong  in  both  spirit  and  numbers.  This 
has  meant  work  of  two  kinds:  First,  interesting 
those  already  members  in  what  the  Chamber  is 
doing,  and  second,  securing  new  members. 

The  committee  has  been  of  the  opinion  that  the 
welding  together  of  the  members  is  more  impor¬ 
tant  than  a  large  increase  in  numbers.  During  the 
past  year  the  committee  has  gone  to  the  members 
for  suggestions  and  criticism  of  the  work  of  the 
Chamber  and  has  endeavored  to  make  them  feel 
a  personal  interest  in  what  the  Chamber  was  do¬ 
ing. 

The  committee  has  acted  as  a  committee  on  re¬ 
ception  at  all  Chamber  dinners  and  assemblies 
and  has  done  everything  in  its  power  to  prove 
the  assertion  that  in  no  way  can  a  more  pleasant 
and  valuable  business  acquaintance  be  acquired 
than  by  membership  in  the  Chamber  of  Commerce. 
This  practice  should  be  continued. 

When  a  body  has  reached  the  size  of  the  Cham¬ 
ber  the  losses  through  death,  change  of  business, 
removal  from  the  city  and  other  causes,  although 
a  small  percentage  of  the  entire  membership, 
amount  to  a  number  which  it  is  no  mean  task  to 
make  up.  It  now  seems  assured  that  by  the  time 
your  committee  goes  out  of  office  it  will  not  only 
have  made  up  this  loss  but  will  have  placed  the 
membership  at  a  higher  point  than  ever  before. 

The  committee  has  solicited  only  those  whoso 
membership  it  thought  would  contribute  something 
to  the  Chamber  and  has  carefully  scrutinized  all 
applications  for  membership.  During  the  past  six 
months  the  committee  has  had  published  in  the 
Chamber  of  Commerce  News  the  names  of  all  ap¬ 
plicants.  As  valuable  information  concerning 
those  applying  for  membership  has  been  obtained 
in  this  way  the  committee  suggests  that  the  pub¬ 
lishing  of  names  in  the  Chamber  of  Commerce 
News  be  made  a  permanent  practice. 

The  Committees  on  Membership  in  the  future 
should  exercise  great  care  in  the  selection  of 
new  members,  with  the  view  of  securing  men  who 
will  remain  in  the  Chamber  and  take  an  interest 
in  its  work.  The  Chamber  cannot  afford  to  sac¬ 
rifice  the  permanency  of  its  membership  for  an  in¬ 
crease  in  numbers. 

The  International  Congress  of  Chambers  of 
Commerce,  in  the  opinion  of  the  committee,  has 
done  a  great  deal  of  good  for  the  Chamber.  While 
it  is  impossible  to  have  meetings  on  such  a  scale 
every  year  the  members  of  your  committee  feel 
that  any  gathering  which  brings  the  members  to¬ 
gether  can  not  but  result  In  great  benefit  to  the 
Chamber  and  its  members.  Such  meetings 
should  be  encouraged  and  efforts  made  to  make 
them  popular. 

It  has  been  suggested  that  the  Chamber  of 
Commerce  make  it  a  point  to  have  a  booth  or  ex¬ 
hibition  at  every  future  industrial  exposition. 
This  should  not  be  primarily  for  the  purpose  of 
soliciting  new  members,  but  should  be  embraced 
as  an  opportunity  of  giving  out  facts  and  figures 
concerning  Boston  and  the  work  the  Chamber  of 
Commerce  is  doing.  Responsibility  of  making  ar¬ 
rangements  for  space  should  be  placed  on  some 
one  committee  and  as  such  an  exhibit  would  un¬ 
doubtedly  result  in  increased  membership  4  is 
suggested  that  this  be  assigned  to  the  Committee 
on  Membership. 

The  committee  suggests  thal  the  Committee  on 
Membership  be  enlarged  to  at  least  30,  a  consid¬ 
erable  portion  of  which  should  be  chosen  from 
the  younger  members  of  the  Chamber.  It  favors 
the  plan  used  by  the  Chicago  Association  of  Com¬ 
merce  which  has  a  large  committee  on  member¬ 
ship  with  a  certain  number  of  its  members  form¬ 
ing  a  committee  to  investigate  and  pass  on  all 
applications. 

The  Committee  on  Membership  has  found  that 
the  general  feeling  toward  the  Chamber  is  friend¬ 
ly  and  that  people  realize  the  importance  of  the 
work  that  has  been  done  during  the  past  three 
years  for  Boston  and  New  England.  The  problem 
which  is  still  before  the  Chamber,  however,  is  how 


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Monday,  November  18,  1912 


Page  18 


to  use  and  keep  the  interest  of  its  large  member¬ 
ship. 

Jno.  A.  Voodry,  Chairman 

Benjamin  Joy,  Vice-Chairman 

Herschel  Bacharach 

Charles  J.  Bailey 

Frank  W.  Bailey 

B.  B.  Cannon 

L.  E.  Demelman 

Frederic  H.  Fay 

Leo  S.  Jolles 

James  A.  Lowell 

Nichols  L.  McKay 

W.  R.  J.  Smith 


MUNICIPAL  AND  METROPOLITAN  AFFAIRS 


The  Committee  on  Municipal  and  Metropolitan 
Affairs  has  during  the  past  year  maintained,  if  not 
increased  the  scope  of  its  activities  so  that  num¬ 
erous  meetings  have  been  necessary.  In  its  con¬ 
sideration  and  action  upon  the  various  municipal 
problems  brought  before  it,  the  Committee  has 
earnestly  endeavored  to  keep  in  mind  the  best  in¬ 
terests  both  of  the  Chamber  and  of  the  citizens 
of  the  whole  municipality.  Proposed  street  im¬ 
provements,  involving  the  expenditure  of  laV-ge 
sums  of  money  have  been  among  the  most  im 
portant  problems  it  has  studied  this  year,  and  in 
making  recommendations  relative  to  these  it  has 
sought  first  of  all  to  protect  the  financial  re¬ 
sources  of  the  city.  In  relation  to  one  of  these  pro¬ 
posed  improvements,  which  would  require  the  ex¬ 
penditure  of  $1,250,000,  it  laid  down  the  principle 
that  all  property  benefited  by  an  improvement 
should  pay  a  proportionate  betterment  assessment, 
even  when  situated  outside  the  present  restricted 
zone  of  betterment  levies.  This  action  has  led  the 
Committee,  in  co-operation  with  the  Committee  on 
City  Planning,  to  undertake  a  thorough  study  of 
present  methods  of  financing  public  improvements. 

Toward  the  close  of  the  year  the  Committee 
recommended  that  publicity  be  given  the  matters 
it  has  under  consideration  from  time  to  time  be¬ 
fore  its  reports  on  these  matters  are  made  to  the 
Directors.  This  recommendation,  if  adopted,  will 
mean  a  change  in  the  general  policy  of  the  Cham¬ 
ber,  but  the  Committee  is  of  the  opinion  the  time 
is  ripe  for  the  change,  and  hopes  that  the  recom¬ 
mendation  will  be  adopted  at  least  as  an  experi¬ 
ment. 

A  Review  of  the  Year's  Work 

The  Committee  held  31  meetings  during  the 
year,  which  was  a  short  year  because  of  the 
change  in  the  date  of  the  annual  meeting  from 
January  to  November.  Of  these  31  meetings,  12 
were  wholly  or  in  part  joint  meetings  with  the 
Committee  on  City  Planning.  There  were  over  30 
meetings  of  sub-committees  of  the  Committee,  or 
of  joint  sub-committees  on  which  this  Committee 
was  represented,  and  members  of  the  Committee 
appeared  before  the  Governor  and  committees  of 
the  Legislature  and  of  the  City  Council. 

At  least  50  cUuerent  matters  of  business  have 
come  before  the  Committee  for  consideration  dur¬ 
ing  the  year,  not  all  of  which  have  been  finally  dis¬ 
posed  of,  and  it  considered  a  large  number  of  bills 
which  were  presented  to  the  Legislature  of  1912. 

The  Committee  and  its  sub-committees  contin¬ 
ued  their  meetings  through  most  of  the  summer 
and  individual  members  have  given  generously  of 
their  time  and  energy  to  the  work  of  the  Com¬ 
mittee. 

Street  Improvements — Avery  Street 

One  of  the  most  important  matters  which  has 
been  considered  and  acted  upon  by  the  Commit¬ 
tee  on  Municipal  and  Metropolitan  Auairs  the 
past  year  is  the  proposed  widening  and  extension 
of  Avery  Street.  This  matter  was  of  greater  im- 
p  rtance  because  of  the  principle  of  assessing  bet¬ 
terments  involved  than  because  of  the  proposed 
improvement  in  itself  and  has  occupied  the  atten¬ 
tion  of  this  Committee  and  the  Committee  on  City 
Planning  almost  continuously  since  early  in  Jan¬ 
uary. 

The  history  f  the  action  upon  this  matter  is 
too  long  to  recite  in  detail.  The  Legislature  passed 
a  bill  providing  for  the  expenditure  by  the  City  of 
Boston  of  $1,250,000  outside  the  debt  limit '  for 
widening  and  extending  Avery  Street,  under  the 
provisions  of  the  law  limiting  the  assessment  of 
betterments  to  property  within  125  feet  of  the  im¬ 
provement  and  exempting  property  on  substan¬ 
tially  parallel  streets.  The  Committee  proposed, 
previous  to  the  enactment  of  the  legislation,  that 
it  be  amended  so  that  all  property  which  received 
any  benefit,  wherever  the  property  might  be  lo¬ 
cated,  should  pay  its  share  of  the  cost.  The 
Committee  proposed  two  other  amendments,  but 
put  the  principal  emphasis  on  the  amendment  to 
extend  the  field  of  assessment  It  favored  the  im¬ 
provement  itself,  but  not  the  method  by  which  it 
was  proposed  the  cost  should  be  paid.  The  Com¬ 
mittee’s  action  was  approved  by  the  Directors,  as 
were  all  the  other  recommendations  of  the  Com¬ 
mittee  on  this  matter,  so  that  in  each  case  the 
Committee’s  action  became  the  action  of  the 
Chamber. 

The  Committee,  with  the  sanction  of  the  Direc¬ 


tors,  appeared  before  the  Governor,  and  urged  him 
to  veto  the  bill,  but  the  bill  was  eventually  signed. 

The  act,  known  as  Chapter  558  of  the  Acts  of 
1912,  cannot  become  effective,  however,  until  the 
Mayor  and  City  Council  have  approved  it.  The 
Chamber,  upon  recommendation  of  the  Committee, 
asked  the  Mayor  and  City  Council  not  to  accept 
the  act.  Up  to  the  close  of  the  Chamber  year  they 
had  taken  no  action  upon  it.  The  Committee  is  au¬ 
thorized  to  take  whatever  action  is  advisable  in  op¬ 
position  to  the  final  adoption  of  the  act  in  its 
present  form. 

St.  James  Avenue 

Another  important  proposal  for  street  improve¬ 
ment  which  came  before  this  Committee  and  the 
Committee  on  City  Planning  was  for  the  widening 
of  St.  James  Avenue  from  Trinity  Place  to  Claren¬ 
don  Street.  This  proposal  was  made  by  Mr.  Lau¬ 
rence  Minot,  a  member  of  the  committee  in  charge 
of  the  development  of  the  Park  Square 
lands  of  the  New  York,  New  Haven  & 
Hartford  Railroad  Company.  Because  of 
advantageous  financial  co-operation  offered  by  the 
Railroad  Company  and  because  the  Committee  con¬ 
sidered  the  improvement  would  be  very  desirable, 
it  proposed  that  the  Chamber  ask  the  Mayor  and 
City  Council  to  petition  the  Legislature  for  per¬ 
missive  legislation  for  carrying  out  the  improve¬ 
ment.  This  the  Chamber  did  and  such  a  petition 
was  presented,  the  legislation  providing  for  the  use 
of  the  excess  condemnation  amendment  in  making 
the  improvement.  The  House  Committee  on  Rules 
reported  in  favor  of  admitting  the  legislation,  but 
not  a  sufficient  number  of  favorable  votes  were 
cast  in  the  House  and  it  was  not  admitted. 

The  matter  has  again  :ome  before  the  Commit¬ 
tee  in  a  slightly  altered  form  and  is  being  consid¬ 
ered  by  a  sub-committee  in  co-operation  with  a 
committee  of  the  Boston  Real  Estate  Exchange. 

Chapter  681,  Acts  of  1912 
This  Committee,  again  with  the  co-operation  of 
the  Committee  on  City  Planning,  advocated  oppo¬ 
sition  to  the  passage  of  a  bill  by  the  Legislature 
of  1912  appropriating  $2,500,000  outside  the  debt 
limit  for  unspecified  street  improvements,  and  op¬ 
position  was  made  by  the  Chamber.  The  bill 
passed  and  became  Chapter  661  of  the  Acts  of  1912. 
The  Committee  on  Municipal  and  Metropolitan  Af¬ 
fairs  gave  further  study  to  the  act.  The  members 
agreed  on  two  things;  that  the  act  itself  was  un¬ 
desirable  because  of  the  bad  financial  policy  it 
would  permit,  but  that  there  is  great  need  of  street 
improvements,  puiticulci^/  iu  the  suijurban  dis- 
tricts.  The  Chamber  madf  public  statements  pre¬ 
pared  by  two  Chamber  members  setting  forth  ar¬ 
guments  for  and  against  the  adoption  of  the  act 
by  the  voters  at  the  election  on  November  5.  The 
voters  accepted  the  act.  . 

Commonwealth  Avenue  and  Dock  Square 
A  sub-committee  of  the  Committee,  with  a  sub¬ 
committee  of  the  Committee  on  City  Planning,  it 
eoilsidering  several  important  changes  in  Common¬ 
wealth  Avenue  west  of  Massachusetts  Avenue,  and 
a  sub-committee  is  considering  a  proposed  widen¬ 
ing  of  South  Market  Street  and  relief  of  traffic 
congestion  in  Dock  Square  and  vicinity. 

Other  Street  Improvements 
The  Joint  Committee  on  Municipal  and  Metro¬ 
politan  Affairs  and  on  Cjty  Planning  gave  atten¬ 
tion  to  such  matters  as  thq  widening  and  extension 
of  Hamilton  Place,  the  construction  of  a  new  street 
from  Hanover  Street  to  Boylston  Street  and  a 
cross-town  traffic  way  to  j  be  built  in  conjunction 
with  an  inter-terminal  railroad  tunnel.  The  joint 
committee  recommended  opposition  to  the  bills 
presented  in  the  Legislature  providing  for  these 
improvements.  The  recommendations  were  adopt¬ 
ed  by  the  Directors,  except  that  relating  to  the 
cross-town  traffic-way,  which  matter  finally  be¬ 
came  involved  in  the  Legislature,  in  general  rail¬ 
road  legislation.  In  the  other  matters  the  Mayor, 
who  was  a  petitioner  for  the  legislation,  withdrew 
the  proposals 

Financing  Public  Improvements 

These  proposed  street  improvements  have  raised 
questions  which  have  resulted  in  the  appointment 
of  a  joint  sub-committee  of  the  Committee  on  Mu¬ 
nicipal  and  Metropolitan  Affairs  and  the  Commit¬ 
tee  on  City  Planning  to  consider  the  general  ques¬ 
tion  of  financing  public  improvements  and  parti¬ 
cularly  the  method  of  assessing  betterments  for 
improvements.  The  joint  sub-committee  has  been 
at  work  since  midsummer  and  the  full  committee 
will  probably  make  this  its  principal  work  for  the 
current  year. 

Metropolitan  District  and  City  Planning 

Several  bills  providing  in  one  way  or  another 
for  co-operative  work  in  developing  the  metropoli¬ 
tan  district  were  presented  to  the  Legislature.  Two 
of  them  were  considered  by  the  Committee,  the 
more  important  of  which  was  that  included  in 
the  report  of  the  Metropolitan  Plan  Commission 
which  this  Committee  considered  jointly  with  the 
Committee  on  City  Planning.  The  Joint  Committee 
reported  in  favor  of  this  bill  with  suggestions  for 
several  changes,  and  the  Directors  approved  the 
report.  The  Chamber  was  represented  in  favor  of 
the  bill  at  the  hearing  be  ore  the  legislative  Com¬ 
mittee  on  Metropolitan  Affairs. 

This  Committee  also  considered  the  bill  pro¬ 


posed  by  the  Massachusetts  Real  Estate  Exchange 
providing  for  the  general  municipal  government 
of  metropolitan  Boston.  The  Committee  did  not  ap¬ 
prove  this  bill  and  recommended  that  the  Cham¬ 
ber  take  no  action  on  it.  The  matter  was  laid  on 
the  table  by  me  Chamber’s  Executive  Committee, 
as  the  legislative  Committee  had  reported  a  re¬ 
solve  for  enlarging  and  continuing  the  Metropoli¬ 
tan  Plan  Commission.  No  legislation  relating  to 
metropolitan  planning  was  passed,  however,  by 
tbs  Legislature  of  1912. 

A  joint  sub-committee  of  the  Committee  on  Mu¬ 
nicipal  and  Metropolitan  Affairs  and  on  City  Plan¬ 
ning  was  appointed  in  June  to  consider  Coun¬ 
cillor  Hale’s  ordinance  providing  for  a  Boston 
Planning  Commission  and  the  general  question  of 
a  planning  commission  for  this  city.  The  joint  sub¬ 
committee  is  at  work  but  has  not  as  yet  reported. 

Street  Lighting 

In  June,  1911,  the  City  Council  appropriated 
$300,000  to  be  expended  by  the  Commissioner  of 
Public  Works  for  the  purchase  and  installation  of 
approximately  11,000  gas  lamps  with  mantles  and 
other  necessary  equipment  and  approximately  11,- 
000  automatic  lighting  and  extinguishing  devices. 
The  mayor  approved  the  appropriation.  The  Com¬ 
mittee  studied  the  various  bids  for  furnishing  the 
equipment  submitted  to  the  Commissioner  of  Pub¬ 
lic  Works,  conferred  with  the  Commissioner  and 
the  consulting  engineer  of  the  Boston  Finance 
Commission  and  on  February  13  recommended 
"that  the  Chamber  favor  the  adoption  of  the  in¬ 
verted  type  of  gas  lamp  when  purchasing  equip¬ 
ment  for  the  lighting  of  the  city’s  subsidiary 
streets  with  gas.”  A  second  and  similar  report  was 
later  made,  and  the  Committee  was  authorized  to 
advocate  the  inverted  type  of  lamp,  which  it  did 
at  a  public  hearing  given  by  the  Mayor.  The  Com¬ 
missioner  of  Public  Works  has  recommended  the 
■urchase  of  an  inverted  mantle  type  of  lamp,  and 
so  has  the  Boston  Finance  Commission,  but  the 
Mayor  opposes  the  purchase  of  the  lamp  recom¬ 
mended,  and  no  new  system  of  subsidiary  street 
lighting  has  yet  been  provided,  although  the  ap¬ 
propriation  is  still  available. 

High  Pressure  Pumping  Station 
The  Commissioner  of  Public  Works  requested 
the  Committee  to  consider  the  problem  of  a  prop¬ 
er  location  for  the  pumping  station  to  be  built  in 
connection  with  the  new  high  pressure  fire  ser¬ 
vice  provided  for  in  Chapter  312  of  the  Acts  of 
1911.  The  Commissioner  was  in  fa.vor  of  placing 
the  pumping  station  on  Boston  Common,  as  he  con¬ 
sidered  it  the  most  available  and  the  safest  loca¬ 
tion  for  it.  The  Committee  decided,  however,  that 
there  would  be  too  serious  opposition  to  erecting 
the  station  on  the  Common,  or  constructing  it  un¬ 
der  the  Common,  and  finally  reported  in  favor  of 
constructing  the  station  under  Charles  Street  be¬ 
tween  the  Common  and  the  Public  Garden,  a  plan 
considered  feasible  by  the  Commissioner  and  the 
Committee.  With  its  report  the  Committee  pre¬ 
sented  a  design  for  an  ornamental  gate  to  the 
Common  on  Charles  Street  in  which  might  be 
concealed  the  necessary  entrance  and  ventilating 
apparatus  for  the  station.  The  Committee  was 
authorized  to  support  the  Commissioner  if  he  de¬ 
cides  to  locate  the  station  under  Charles  Street. 

Amendments  to  By-Laws 
Largely  as  a  result  of  the  action  of  this  Commit¬ 
tee  on  the  proposed  Avery  Street  Improvement, 
the  Chamber  was  petitioned  for  amendments  to 
the  by-laws  which  would,  in  effect,  have  taken  from 
the  Directors  the  authority  to  act  for  the  Cham¬ 
ber  on  matters  relating  to  public  improvements, 
and  placed  this  power  in  the  Chamber  membership. 
The  Committee  was  of  the  opinion  that  such  a 
change  would  be  disastrous  to  effective  action  by 
the  Chamber.  The  amendments  were  rejected  by 
a  decisive  vote  at  the  Chamber  meeting  in  October. 

Publicity 

In  order  that  the  members  of  the  Chamber  may 
know  what  matters  the  Committee  has  under  con¬ 
sideration  and  may,  if  they  wish,  be  given  a  hear¬ 
ing  on  any  particular  matter  before  the  Commit¬ 
tee  has  reported  upon  it,  the  Committee  appoint¬ 
ed  a  sub-committee  to  confer  with  the  Committee 
on  Publicity  relative  to  publication  in  the  issues 
of  the  “Chamber  of  Commerce  News”  of  articles 
telling  what  the  Committee  is  doing.  The  sugges¬ 
tions  of  the  conference  sub-committee  were  wel¬ 
comed  by  the  Committee  on  Publicity  and  this 
Committee  hopes  to  be  able  during  the  coming 
year  to  keep  the  Chamber  membership  fully  in¬ 
formed  as  to  what  it  is  doing. 

Traffic 

In  April,  1911,  the  Committee  on  Municipal  and 
Metropolitan  Affairs  called  the  attention  of  the  Di¬ 
rectors  to  the  undesirable  traffic  conditions  on  At¬ 
lantic  Avenue  and  suggested  arrangements  by 
which  the  conditions  might  be  remedied.  An  agree¬ 
ment,  as  between  the  Union  Freight  Railroad  Com¬ 
pany  and  the  Boston  Elevated  Railway  Company 
for  the  joint  use  of  tracks  on  Atlantic  Avenue,  was 
drafted.  It  was  never  signed  by  the  parties  con¬ 
cerned  and  early  this  year  the  committee  took  up 
the  matter  again.  The  Directors  of  the  Port  have 
assured  the  Committee  that  an  agreement  for  the 
joint  use  of  Atlantic  Avenue  tracks  would  not  in- 


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Monday,  November  18,  1912 


CHAMBER  OF  COMMERCE  NEWS 


Page  19 


(erf ere  with  their  plans  for  port  development.  On 
the  recommendation  of  the  Chamber’s  Directors, 
tue  Directors  of  the  Port  have  been  requested  to 
work  out  and  secure  the  adoption  of  a  plan  for  the 
joint  use  of  the  tracks  on  Atlantic  Avenue.  The 
matter  is  still  pending. 

The  Under  Forty  Division  is  making  an  exten¬ 
sive  study  of  the  street  traffic  situation. 

City  Ordinances 

A  draft  of  an  ordinance  providing  for  the  con¬ 
struction  of  sidewalks  in  the  City  of  Boston,  in 
which  the  United  Improvement  Association  and 
several  other  organizations  are  interested,  was 
brought  before  the  Committee.  It  is  still  in  the 
hands  of  a  sub-committee. 

The  City  of  Boston  Hotel  Association  requested 
the  Committee  to  hear  the  Association’s  objec¬ 
tions  to  a  new  city  ordinance  requiring  hotels  to 
pay  for  the  removal  of  their  garbage.  A  sub-com¬ 
mittee  heard  the  hotel  owners  and  managers  and 
also  the  Commissioner  of  Public  Works  on  the 
matter.  The  Committee  could  see  no  reason  why 
the  ordinance  should  be  modified  and  reported 
to  that  effect.  The  Committee’s  report  was  ap¬ 
proved  by  the  Directors. 

The  Committee  considered  a  new  ordinance  pro¬ 
posed  by  the  Mayor  providing  for  the  consolidation 
of  the  Park,  Public  Grounds,  Bath  and  Music  De¬ 
partments  of  the  city  and  reported  in  favor  of  the 
proposed  consolidation,  provided  all  the  officials 
and  employes  of  the  new  department  were  put  un¬ 
der  civil  service.  The  Committee  thought  it  unde¬ 
sirable  and  unnecessary  for  the  Chamber  to  urge 
the  City  Council  to  pass  the  ordinance,  and  the 
position  of  the  Committee  was  approved  by  the 
Directors. 

The  Women’s  Municipal  League  requested  the 
Chamber’s  approval  of  an  amendment  to  Section 
18,  Chap.  47,  Revised  Ordinances  of  1898,  the 
amendment  providing  that  garbage,  refuse,  etc.,  be 
placed  in  tightly  covered  metal  receptacles.  The 
Committee  reported  that  the  amendment  was  not 
necessary,  but  proposed  another  amendment  to  the 
ordinance  which  would  require  the  use  of  closely 
covered  water-tight  vehicles  and  receptacles  in 
carrying  waste  matter  through  the  streets.  The 
report  of  the  Committee  was  approved  and  the 
secretary  of  the  Chamber  submitted  the  amend¬ 
ment  to  the  City  Clerk  for  presentation  to  the 
City  Council. 

The  Committee  considered  an  ordinance  provid¬ 
ing  for  a  board  of  examiners  within  the  building 
department  of  the  city  and  reported  in  favor  of 
the  ordinance  with  several  minor  amendments. 
The  report  was  adopted  by  the  Directors,  and  rep¬ 
resentatives  of  the  Committee  appeared  before  the 
Committee  on  Ordinances  of  the  City  Council  on 
the  matter. 

Additional  Legislation 

In  addition  to  legislation  previously  mentioned 
various  bills  before  the  Legislature  of  1912  were 
referred  to  this  Committee  for  consideration.  They 
were  all  considered  first  by  a  sub-committee  on 
legislation  and  then  by  the  full  Committee.  On  a 
majority  of  the  bills  the  Chamber,  on  the  recom¬ 
mendation  of  the  Committee,  took  no  action.  Two 
groups  of  bills,  however,  were  of  such  import¬ 
ance  that  action  was  necessary. 

One  of  these  groups  included  bills  providing  for 
amendments  to  the  Boston  charter  amendments  of 
1909.  The  Committee  recommended  that  the 
Chamber  oppose  all  amendments  to  the  charter. 
The  recommendation  was  adopted  by  the  Direc¬ 
tors,  and  the  Committee  was  represented  before 
the  legislative  Committee  on  Metropolitan  Affairs 
at  the  hearing  on  the  matter.  The  charter  was 
again  successfully  defended  by  the  combined  good 
government  forces  and  the  proposed  charter 
amendments  defeated. 

The  second  group  included  bills  providing  for 
the  extended  use  of  school  buildings.  The  Com¬ 
mittee  endorsed  the  principle  of  extended  use  of 
school  buildings  and  approved  the  particular  bill 
petitioned  for  by  the  Boston  Finance  Commission. 
The  Directors  approved  the  position  taken  by  the 
Committee.  Legislation  for  the  extended  use  of 
school  buildings  was  placed  on  the  statute  books 
by  the  Legislature  and  the  Boston  School  Commit¬ 
tee  has  started  several  social  centres  in  public 
school  'buildings  under  this  legislation. 

M  isceilaneous 

The  location  of  the  proposed  Boston  Elevated 
Railway  Co.  express  station  on  Mott  Street  came 
before  the  Committee,  but  was  a  simple  problem, 
demanded  no  action  and  did  not  go  beyond  the 
Committee. 

The  Committee  arranged  a  conference  between 
the  Commissioner  of  Public  Works  and  represen¬ 
tatives  of  the  Boston  Fruit  &  Produce  Exchange 
which  resulted  in  a  promise  of  co-operation  on  the 
part  of  the  Commissioner  with  the  Exchange  in  a 
campaign  for  a  cleaner  “market  district.” 

Other  matters  on  which  the  Committee  took  ac¬ 
tion  were:  Investigation  of  the  Health  Depart¬ 
ment,  Schedules  of  Tariffs  for  Public  Services.  De¬ 
lay  on  the  East  Boston  Ferry,  Additional  Subway 
Tracks  under  Tremont  Street  Mall  of  Common, 
and  the  City  Hall  Annex. 

A  sub-committee  of  the  Committee  is  at  work 


upon  the  housing  problem,  and  another  sub-commit¬ 
tee  is  making  a  study  of  the  matter  of  a  pension 
system  for  city  employes. 

The  Committee  hid  under  consideration  at  the 
close  of  the  year,  besides  subjects  already  re¬ 
ferred  to,  the  following:  Waste  of  City  Water,  Pub¬ 
lic  Markets,  Sidewalk  Obstructions  and  Book  De¬ 
livery  Service  at  the  Public  Library. 

William  B.  Munro,  Chairman 
Francis  R.  Bangs 
Marshall  F.  Blanchard 
Samuel  B.  Capen 
Harry  J.  Carlson 
Sturgis  Coffin,  2d 
William  C.  Ewing 
Amasa  C.  Gould 
Henry  E.  Hagan 
Hammond  V.  Hayes 
Renton  Whidden 


Associate  Members 
Augustus  S.  Cobb 
Cyrus  Y.  Ferris 
Albert  F.  Flint 


Matthew  J.  Fox 

Frederick  S.  Whitwell 

Joseph  Earl  Perry 

Joseph  R.  Yendley 

PUBLIC  h 

EALTH  LAWS 

The  Committee  on 

Public  Health  Laws  and 

Their  Enforcement  was  appointed  originally  as  a 

special  committee  to  consider  the  situation  in  re¬ 
gard  to  the  existing  health  laws  and  their  en¬ 
forcement,  with  particulad  reference  to  a  recom¬ 
mendation  of  the  Governor,  made  in  a  special 
message  to  the  Legislatura  “That  more  considera¬ 
tion  be  given  to  developing  a  definite  state  policy 
respecting  the  relative  nedds  of  incipient  and  ad¬ 
vanced  cases  of  consumption,  and  the  division  of 
responsibility  as  between  j:he  state  and  the  com¬ 
munity.” 

Your  Committee,  after 
ward  F.  McSweeney,  Chai 
the  Boston  Consumptives 
stand  had  brought  the  m 
the  Chamber,  asked  fo 
Chairman  of  the  State  Bokrd  of  Health  and  with 
the  Chairman  of  the  Trus  tees  of  Hospitals  for 
Consumptives.  Its  purpose 
to  find  out  exactly  what 
It  ascertained  that,  while 
pitals  for  Consumptives  ha  re 
to  their  particular  branch 
the  state,  the  State  Boarc 
mulated  or  officially  adopl  id  policy  for  handling 


nferring  with  Mr.  Ed- 
an  of  the  Trustees  of 
ospital,  who,  we  under- 
er  to  the  attention  of 
interviews  with  the 


in  doing  this  was 
:he  state’s  policy  was. 
the  Trustees  of  Hos- 
a  policy  with  regard 
of  tuberculosis  work  in 
of  Health  had  no  for- 


the  problem  as  a  whole  in 
tee  was  informed  by  the 
Board  of  Health  that,  wh. 
rate  and  declare  such  a 


he  state.  Your  Commit- 
Chairman  of  the  State 
vb  i  he  couldnot  formu- 
at  it^Tequest,  his 


boird  would  be  glad,  in  cot  .unction  with  the  Trus¬ 
tees  of  Hospitals  for  Consumptives,  to  formulate 
such  a  policy  if  requested  to  do  so  by  the  Legisla¬ 
ture  of  the  state. 

It  was  the  opinion  of  yohr  Committee  that,  in 
the  absence  of  a  definitely  formulated  policy 
worked  out  by  those  in  the  state  best  qualified  by 
knowledge  and  experience  to  deal  with  the  sub¬ 
ject,  any  recommendations  by  your  Committee  af¬ 
ter  such  limited  study  as  it  could  give  to  the 
subject  would  be  of  very  little  service.  On  the  oth¬ 
er  hand  it  believed  that  .if  a  definite  policy 
could  be  worked  out  by  these  experts  that  policy 
would  in  all  probability  be  such  that  bodies  like 
the  Chamber  of  Commerce  wrould  have  something 
definite  which  they  could  ^et  back  of  and  assist. 

With  this  end  in  view  yo 
approval  of  the  Directors 
peared  before  the  Committee  on  Public  Health  of 
the  Legislature,  and  recom  aended  the  passage  of 
an  accompanying  resolve, 

Board  of  Health  and  the  Trustees  of  Hospitals  for 
Consumptives  were  made  t  Commission  to  inves¬ 
tigate  and  report  such  a  state  policy  to  the  Legis¬ 
lature.  This  resolve  pass  :d  unanimously  both 
bouses  of  the  Legislature  t-nd  was  signed  by  the 
Governor. 

Your  Committee  has  likewise  requested  this 


r  Committee,  with  the 
>f  the  Chamber,  ap- 


Commission  to  fix  a  time  fo 

c  public  hearings  when 

your  Committee  and  other 

persons  interested  in 

the  matter  can  appear,  and 

present  such  informa- 

tion  and  make  such  recom 

aendations  as  may  as- 

sist  in  the  work  of  this  Commission. 

Your  Committee  trusts  th 

rt,  as  a  result  of  these 

efforts,  there  will  before  lc 

ng  be  a  definite  state 

policy  for  combating  tuberctlosis,  on  which  all  can 

unite  and  to  which  your  bo 
sistance. 

iy  can  lend  its  best  as- 

StoughSon  Bell,  Chairman 

R.  M. 

Jradley 

Richarc 

B.  Carter 

PUBLIC  UT 

LITIES 

For  the  Committee  on  P 

blic  Utilities  the  brief 

Chamber  year  of  1912  was  .one  of  comparative  in¬ 
activity.  The  particular  duty  of  the  Committee  is  | 
to  consider  and  report  upln  matters  relating  to 
such  important  public  utilities  as  electric  railway 
transportation  and  gas,  elecjric  light  and  telephone 
service.  No  problem  affecting  Boston  of  such  mo¬ 
ment  as  that  presented  to  the  legislature  of  1911 
providing  for  the  renewal  o'  leases -of  existing  sub¬ 
ways  and  the  construction  of  several  new  sub¬ 
ways  came  up  for  consideration  during  1912. 


nor  has  the  Committee  felt  the  necessity  of  taking 
important  action  in  relation  to  the  other  public 
utilities.  The  Committee  wTas  not  idle  through  the 
year,  however,  and  between  January  and  May  trans¬ 
acted  considerable  business.  Furthermore,  the 
coming  year  promises  to  be  a  busy  one.  Already 
the  Committee  has  begun  consideration  of  the  codi¬ 
fication  of  the  laws  relating  to  the  manufacture 
and  sale  of  gas  and  electricity  provided  for  by  Chap¬ 
ter  51  of  the  Resolves  of  1912.  The  Board  of  Gas 
and  Electric  Light  Commissioners  is  giving  a  se¬ 
ries  of  hearings  on  the  Resolve  for  codification  of 
the  laws  in  question  and  the  Committee  has  in¬ 
formed  the  Board  that  it  desires  later  to  file  a 
report  on  the  matter.  It  will  make  a  study  of  the 
testimony  given  at  the  hearings  before  the  Board 
and  expects  to  report  recommendations  to  the 
Chamber’s  Directors.  There  are  also  other  mat¬ 
ters  in  prospect  for  the  consideration  of  the  Com¬ 
mittee. 

The  Street  Railway  Merger 

In  many  ways  the  most  important  matter  upon 
which  the  Committee  took  action  in  1912  was  the 
proposed  merger  of  practically  all  the  street  rail¬ 
way  companies  in  Western  Massachusetts  under 
the  control  of  the  New  Haven  Railroad.  There 
was  a  large  but  by  no  means  unanimous  demand 
for  the  merger  from  the  cities  and  towns  of  the 
Berkshire  section  of  the  State  because  of  the  ex¬ 
pectation  that  the  New  Haven  would  spend  sev¬ 
eral  millions  of  dollars  in  improving  and  extend¬ 
ing  street  railway  service  in  the  hill  towns.  The 
Committee  considered  two  bills  providing  for  the 
merger  and  reported  that  the  bills  should  not  he 
passed  by  the  Legislature  before  a  thorough  in¬ 
vestigation  by  the  railroad  commission  of  the  ad¬ 
visability  of  such  a  merger.  The  Directors  ap¬ 
proved  the  report  and  it  was  made  public.  The 
merger  legislation  failed  to  receive  the  approval 
of  the  Governor,  but  a  recess  Committee  of  the 
Legislature  was  created  to  study  the  whole  mat¬ 
ter  and  report  to  the  next  Legislature. 

Legislative  Matters 

The  Committee  considered  altogether  about  100 
bills  which  were  before  the  Legislature  of  1912. 
On  the  majority  of  them  it  reported  that  the  Cham¬ 
ber  should  take  no  action  and  its  recommendations 
were  approved.  Among  the  subjects  before  the 
Legislature  on  which  the  Committee  did  take  def¬ 
inite  action,  besides  the  Western  Massachusetts 
merger  bill,  were  the  following:  The  removal  of 
the  elevated  railway  structure  from  a  portion  of 
Washington  Street  and  the  substitution  of  a  tun¬ 
nel  therefor;  telepnone  rates;  tbe  development  of 
transportation  in  relation  to  Copley  Square;  the 
prices  of  gas  and  electricity;  the  proposed  railroad 
tunnel  and  traffic  highway  between  the  North  and 
South  terminal  stations. 

Removal  of  the  Elevated 

A  hearing  was  given  the  petitioners  for  legisla¬ 
tion  to  provide  for  the  removal  of  the  elevated  rail¬ 
way  structure  from  Washington  Street  between 
Castle  Street  and  Dudley  Street,  and  the  con¬ 
struction  of  a  tunnel  to  take  its  place.  The  Com¬ 
mittee  adopted  a  report  stating  that  removal  of  the 
elevated  structure  was  inadvisable  for  the  present, 
and  recommended  that  its  report  be  filed  with  the 
proper  legislative  committee.  The  report  was  ap¬ 
proved  and  its  recommendation  adopted  by  the 
Directors. 

Telephone  Rates 

The  Committee  recommended  that  the  Chamber 
actively  oppose  a  group  of  bills  providing  various 
changes  in  telephone  rates.  The  Committee  stated 
that  it  had  previously  taken  the  position  that  the 
problem  of  telephone  rates  should  be  left  to  the 
State  Highway  Commission  and  the  Telephone  Com¬ 
pany  to  work  out  together,  and  that  there  should 
be  no  legislative  interference  until  it  has  been  dem¬ 
onstrated,  after  a  reasonable  time,  that  the  capa¬ 
city  or  willingness  to  solve  the  problem  is  lack¬ 
ing.  The  legislative  committee  reported  leave  to 
withdraw  on  the  bills  and  the  Directors  did  not 
act  on  the  report  of  this  Committee. 

Copley  Square 

This  Committee  joined  with  the  Committee  on 
City  Planning  to  secure  legislation  providing  for 
a  study  by  the  Boston  Transit  Commission  of  the 
proper  development  of  transportation  facilities 
through  Copley  Square.  The  co-operation  of  the 
Boston  Elevated  Railway  Company  was  requested, 
but  the  Company  did  not  care  to  take  up  the  mat¬ 
ter.  The  joint  committee  finally  received  a  com¬ 
munication  from  the  Boston  Transit  Commission 
stating  in  effect,  that  in  planning  the  new  Boylstou 
Street  subway  the  Commission  would  give  proper 
consideration  to  the  probable  future  requirements 
of  Copley  Square.  A  joint  sub-committee  of  this 
Committee  and  Committee  on  City  Planning  was 
appointed  to  confer  from  time  to  time  •with  the 
Commission. 

Frices  of  Gas  and  Electricity 

The  Committee  made  a  report  relative  to  the 
subject  of  prices  paid  for  gas  and  electricity  by 
the  City  and  by  the  small  consumer,  stating  that 
the  subject  was  too  complicated  to  be  properly 
considered  by  the  Committee,  and  that  an  investi¬ 
gation  should  be  made  by  the  Board  of  Gas  and 
Electric  Light  Commissioners. 


Page  20 


CHAMBER  OP  COMMERCE  NEWS 


Monday,  November  18,  191; 


The  Inter-terminal  Tunnel 

A  bill  providing  for  an  inter-terminal  railroad 
tunnel  and  highway  was  referred  to  this  Commit¬ 
tee  by  the  Committee  on  Transportation.  The  two 
committees,  acting  jointly,  were  instrumental  in 
part  in  having  the  bill  laid  on  the  table  in  the  Sen¬ 
ate  after  it  had  passed  the  House.  The  Commit¬ 
tees  on  City  Planning  and  on  Municipal  and  Met¬ 
ropolitan  Affairs  joined  this  Committee  and  the 
Committee  on  Transportation  to  act  on  the  mat¬ 
ter.  The  Joint  Committee  was  authorized  by  the 
Chamber  to  take  such  action  as  would  result  in  the 
drafting  of  a  bill  satisfactory  to  the  several  in¬ 
terests  affected.  As  a  result  one  conference  was 
held  in  which  Mr.  Henry  Howard,  for  the  Joint 
Committee;  Mayor  John  F.  Fitzgerald,  Vice-Presi¬ 
dent  Timothy  E.  Brynes  of  the  New  Haven  Rail¬ 
road,  and  State  Senator  Charles  H.  Pearson  took 
part.  Vice-President  Byrnes  agreed  to  put  in  writ¬ 
ing  a  statement  of  the  position  of  the  New  Haven 
officials  on  the  matter  and  submit  it  later  with  a 
draft  of  a  bill  that  would  be  satisfactory  to  the 
New  Haven.  The  statement  and  bill  were  not  sub¬ 
mitted.  The  legislative  committee  incorporated  a 
provision  for  a  tunnel  in  a  general  railroad  mer¬ 
ger  bill  and  the  Joint  Committee  took  no  further 
action  for  the  reason  that  the  Directors  took  up  the 
railroad  legislation  for  consideration. 

The  Committee  will  undoubtedly  consider  many 
of  the  problems  which  will  come  before  the  Legis¬ 
lature  of  1913  relating  to  public  utilities. 

Henry  Howard,  Chairman 
George  Hutchinson 
Dugald  C.  Jackson 

Associate  Members  Robert  Treat  Paine 

Arthur  L.  Endicott  Edwin  S.  Webster 

E.  Howard  George  Charles  F.  Weed 


PUBLICITY 


which  members  wdll  differ  Units  the  possibiUties 
of  interesting  matter  in  the  News  except  through 
signed  statements.  Proper  attention  to  publicity 
of  Chamber  activities  in  ths  daily  press  often 
requires  publication  of  interes  ing  matter  between 
issues  of  the  News,  so  that  Ihe  official  report  in 
the  News  is  already  familiar  :o  the  members  and 
so  less  interesting. 

The  fifeld  of  the  former  mcnthly  publication  of 
the  Chamber  "Advance  New  England”  is  now  part 
of  the  work  of  the  Newls.  The  Committee  had 
hoped  to  publish  this  year  nore  articles  illustra¬ 
tive  of  the  development  of  3oston  which  would 
give  due  publicity  to  the  comnercial  growth  of  the 
city  among  other  trade  (bodies  which  receive  our 
paper.  Pressure  of  other  work  and  the  limitations 
on  the  size  of  the  paper  whiih  could  be  economi¬ 
cally  published  have  prevented  accomplishment  of 
this  purpose. 

Your  Committee  has  in  hard  a  plan  for  broaden¬ 
ing  the  scope  and  influence  of  the  News  which  it 
is  believed  will  enhance  the  paper's  growth.  Publi¬ 
cation  of  the  details  of  this  plan  must  await  their 
further  development. 

During  the  year  there  has  been  a  change  in  the 
editorial  management  of  the  News,  Richard  J. 
Walsh  having  resigned  as  editor  in  April  and  hav¬ 
ing  been  succeeded  by  George  T.  Richardson.  The 
advertising  manage&ent.  remains  the  same. 

The  work  of  the  pub  icity  department  outside 
the  Chamber’s  own  publication  has  been  especially 
active  during  the  past  six  months,  owing  to  the 
Fifth  International  Congi  ess  of  Chambers  of  Com¬ 
merce.  Although  this  wcrk  was  under  the  super¬ 
vision  of  a  special  comm  ttee,  the  details  were  left 
to  the  Chamber’s  regulai  publicity  staff  and  their 
execution  involved  mucl  time  and  labor.  Mean¬ 
while  the  general  public  ty  work  of  the  Chamber 
has  not  been  neglected,  ,nd  every  effort  has  been 
made  to  secure  all  whoUsome  publicity  by  every 


The  purposes  of  the  Committee  on  Publicity  dur¬ 
ing  the  past  year  have  been  to  improve  the  Cham¬ 
ber  of  Commerce  News  and  to  put  it  on  a  secure 
financial  basis,  to  conduct  the  usual  publicity  work 
of  the  Chamber  through  the  daily  press,  and  to 
develop  larger  fields  of  publicity  for  the  Chamber 
and  for  New  England. 

The  belief  expressed  in  the  last  annual  report 
of  the  Committee  on  Publicity  that  the  News 
would  have  a  greater  development  during  the  en¬ 
suing  year  has  been  realized.  It  did  not  fall  be¬ 
low  eight  pages  during  the  summer  months,  and 
Increased  advertising  required  several  larger  is¬ 
sues.  Each  weekly  issue  has  been  brought  to  the 
standard  of  that  formerly  issued  once  each  month 
by  a  uniform  quality  of  paper  permitting  adequate 
printing  of  half-tone  cuts.  Under  the  old  system 
there  was  a  tendency  on  the  part  of  advertisers  to 
concentrate  their  copy  upon  one  issue  a  month, 
which  became  cumbersome  and  required  double 
postage,  while  the  other  issues  did  not  carry  a  de¬ 
sirable  quota  of  advertising. 

New  type  and  more  satisfactory  presswork  have 
been  secured.  An  effort  has  been  made  to  co-oper¬ 
ate  with  patrons  in  the  improvement  of  the  typo¬ 
graphical  appearance  of  advertising.  In  this  there 
remains  much  room  for  improvement  and  we  rec¬ 
ommend  more  systematic  study  of  the  possibili¬ 
ties  of  this  work.  A  department  of  “classified  ad¬ 
vertising,”  inaugurated  early  in  the  summer,  has 
met  with  the  appreciation  of  advertisers,  and  ap¬ 
pears  destined  to  add  materially  to  the  strength 
and  interest  of  the  publication. 

As  heretofore,  the  solicitation  of  advertising  has 
been  kept  upon  a  purely  business  basis,  and  re¬ 
sults  have  repeatedly  demonstrated  that  the 
claims  of  the  News  to  be  regarded  as  a  valuable 
advertising  medium  are  in  strict  conformity  with 
the  facts.  It  would  be  well,  however,  to  impress 
once  more  upon  the  membership  of  the  Chamber 
that  the  News  is  their  paper,  that  they  are  its 
owners  and  publishers.  It  is  good  business  for 
the  members,  other  things  being  equal,  to  patron¬ 
ize  their  own  advertisers.  Your  Committee  is  glad 
to  say  that  this  sentiment  prevails  to  a  great  ex¬ 
tent  among  the  members,  and  that  much  attention 
is  paid  to  the  advertising  columns  of  the  News. 

In  addition  to  reporting  Chamber  activities  to 
the  members  an  effort  has  been  made  to  publish 
articles  of  a  more  general  nature  of  interest  to 
the  membership.  A  department  of  book  reviews, 
in  which  new  publications  of  special  value  to  busi¬ 
ness  men  are  summarized,  has  been  added.  In 
the  last  annual  report  of  the  Committee  on  Pub¬ 
licity  the  inauguration  of  a  policy  of  printing 
signed  articles  and  signed  editorials  by  well- 
known  members  of  the  Chamber  and  other  men  of 
authority  was  mentioned.  This  policy  is  still  ad¬ 
hered  to,  but  the  editor  of  the  News  does  not  meet 
with  quite  the  co-operation  in  carrying  it  out  that 
is  desirable.  Your  Committee  respectfully  urge 
upon  the  members,  and  especially  upon  chairmen 
of  committees  and  committee  members,  the  import¬ 
ance  and  value  of  such  signed  articles  and  edi¬ 
torials  on  topics  of  interest  to  the  membership, 
and  asks  that  such  material  be  furnished  as  free¬ 
ly  and  frequently  as  possible. 

The  necessity  of  avoiding  topics  on  which  com¬ 
mittees  of  the  Chamber  have  not  acted  and  about 


legitimate  and  desirabld  means.  Close  relations 
with  the  Boston  newspa;  ers  have  been  cultivated 
and  many  special  news  aper  and  magazine  arti¬ 
cles  bearing  upon  the  w  >rk  of  the  Chamber  have 
been  prepared  or  inspire  1  by  furnishing  attractive 
material.  Your  Committt  j  believes  that  the  rela¬ 
tions  of  the  newspaper 


are  constantly  gaining  st 
vantage  of  Boston  and 


press  and  the  Chamber 
ength,  to  the  distinct  ad- 
jur  commercial  develop- 


ble  be  done  that  this  c 


ment,  and  we  strongly  u:  ge  that  everything  possi- 


mmunity  of  interest  be¬ 


tween  the  newspapers  a  id  the  Chamber  be  still 
further  augmented.  A  ,, 

We  rectfHBRnd  thafl|P*c  the  ensuing  year  the 
following  subjects  be  developed: 

1.  Improvement  in  the  reading  matter  of  the 
News,  to  insure  the  attention  of  the  members. 

2.  Improvement  of  the  typographical  form  of 
advertisements  through;  co-operation  with  adver¬ 
tisers. 

3.  Development  of  gi eater  interest  in  the  activ¬ 
ities  of  the  Chamber  and  the  growth  of  New  Eng¬ 
land  in  other  parts  of  the  United  States  and  for¬ 
eign  countries. 

Sydney  R.  Wrightington,  Chairman 
Samuel  E.  Blanchard 
Gleaveland  A.  Chandler 

Associate  Members  Frank  B.  Cummings 

Irving  J.  French  James  T.  Wetherald 

Everit  B.  Terhune  Russell  R.  Whitman 


AC 


RETAIL  TRADE  BOARD 


The  Governing  Board  ind  seven  standing  commit¬ 
tees  of  the  Retail  Trade  poard  have  been  active  in 
working  for  the  objects  fir  which  the  Board  stands. 

From  its  first  organization,  the  Retail  Trade 
Board  has  worked  to  eliminate  unfair  competition. 
As  a  result  of  a  meeting  of  the  Retail  Trade  Board, 
the  activity  of  the  Pilgrim  Publicity  Association, 
and  certain  bills  introduced  into  the  Legislature, 
a  specal  committee  was  appointed  by  the  Retail 
Trade  Board  to  make  m  study  of  the  law  and  its 
possible  amendments  hajing  to  do  with  fraudulent 
advertising.  The  comm: ttee  found  that  the  law 
as  it  stood  on  the  statute  books,  provided  no  penal¬ 
ty  for  fraudulent  advertising,  unless  it  could  be 
proven  that  some  one  hid  actually  been  deceived 
or  damaged,  and  unless  that  person  made  a  com¬ 
plaint  before  a  court.  Tlte  committee  made  a  study 
of  Massachusetts  laws  Jnd  the  German  law  and 
finally  decided  that  in  formulating  an  advertising 

l.  11  *1,  „  t  O  /if  1  />AT1  Cl  /I  DT^fl  * 


bill  the  following  factoifc 
(1)  the  quality  of  the  art 


should  be  considered: 
ele  offered;  (2)  the  quan- 


se  advertised;  (4)  the 
r  manufacture;  (5)  the 
such  merchandise;  (5) 


board  support  House  Bi 
the  board  appeared  befc- 
Legislature  which  was  c 
The  contention  of  the  ( 
the  law  should  control  ad 


tity  offered;  (3)  the  mai  ner  or  source  of  the  pur 
chase  of  the  merchanc  i 
method  of  production, 
reason  for  the  price  o: 
the  price.  The  committcfe  recommended  that  the 


1175;  and  members  of 
e  the  committee  of  the 
nsidering  the  bill, 
overning  Board  was  that 
ertising  in  respect  to  the 


six  factors  above  noted,  tpt  not  in  respect  of  state¬ 
ments  concerning  value. — on  the  ground  that  value, 
especially  of  such  articles  as  are  designed  to  meet 
special  fashion  or  tastes,  is  of  too  uncertain  char¬ 


acter  to  he  definitely  determined.  The  legislation 
that  was  enacted  as  a  result  of  these  endeavors 


Chapter  4S9  of  1912 — was  entirety  in  accord  with 
the  wishes  of  the  board:  it  included  regulations 
of  the  six  factors  above  mentioned,  and  did  not 
attempt  to  regulate  statements  concerning  value. 

As  a  result  of  an  investigation  by  the  secretary 
of  the  Retail  Trade  Board  early  in  February,  Her¬ 
bert  N.  Goldman  of  New  York,  was  prosecuted  and 
convicted  on  a  charge  of  fraudulent  advertising,  and 
a  fur  sale  which  he  was  conducting  in  Brookline 
was  broken  up.  Several  members  of  the  board  be¬ 
came  much  interested  in  this  case,  and  devoted  a 
considerable  amount  of  time  to  it.  This  was  said 
to  be  the  first  conviction  ever  obtained  under  the 
then  existing  fraudulent  advertising  law.  The 
difficulties  met  with  in  carrying  through  its  pros¬ 
ecution  were  in  a  large  measure  responsible  for 
the  interest  of  the  board  in  securing  a  new  frau¬ 
dulent  advertising  law. 

The  Committee  on  Credit  Reporting  investigated 
the  feasibility  o.f  connecting  twenty  of  the  largest 
stores  by  direct  telephone  lines  with  the  Credit 
Reporting  Company  in  order  to  facilitate  the  ex¬ 
change  of  references;  but  it  was  found  that  such  a 
direct  line  would  put  the  majority  of  these  com¬ 
panies  to  more  trouble  than  the  increase  in  the 
efficiency  of  the  service  would  offset,  and  the  pro¬ 
ject  was  abandoned. 

The  matter  of  Boston  stores  answering  credit 
references  from  New  York  direct  rather  than  send¬ 
ing  them  through  the  Credit  Reporting  Company, 
was  referred  to  the  Credit  Men's  Association. 

Certain  complaints  concerning  the  service  ren¬ 
dered  by  the  Credit  Reporting  Company  were  in¬ 
vestigated  and  the  committee  recommended  that 
the  number  of  messenger  boys  used  by  the  company 
be  doubled  and  that  key  ratings  should  be  put  on 
2eferences  returned  to  subscribers. 

The  Committee  on  Legislation  examined  all  bills 
introduced  in  the  Massachusetts  Legislature,  care¬ 
fully  considered  all  that  were  of  interest  to  mem¬ 
bers  of  the  Retail  Trade  Board,  and  recommended 
“no  action”  or  referred  them  to  the  Governing 
Board  for  its  consideration. 

A  bill  having  been  presented  in  the  national 
House  of  Representatives  requiring  manufacturers 
to  place  their  own  names  upon  manufactured  arti¬ 
cles,  the  Governing  Board,  believing  that  such 
legislation  would  be  of  great  disadvantage  to  the 
retail  interests,  instructed  the  secretary  to  draw 
up  resolutions  to  be  submitted  to  the  Executive 
Committee  of  the  Chamber,  and  if  approved  by 
them,  to  be  forwarded  to  the  Senators  and  Repre¬ 
sentatives  of  Massachusetts.  This  was  done,  and 
advice  was  received  from  Washington  that  the  bill 
would  not  come  up  at  this  session. 

The  Governing  Board  voted  to  support  House 
Bill  1395,  relating  to  establishing  a  State  Board 
of  Labor  and  defining  its  powers  and  duties. 

After  the  close  of  the  session  of  the  Legislature, 
there  was  prepared  a  pamphlet  containing  all  legis¬ 
lation  of  1912  of  interest  to  retailers;  the  Govern¬ 
ing  Board  has  authorized  that  it  be  printed  and  it 
will  be  distributed  to  all  members  of  the  Retail 
Trade  Board. 

Several  complaints  having  been  received  con¬ 
cerning  the  delay  in  the  appraisal  of  packages  im¬ 
ported  from  abroad,  the  possibility  of  adopting  the 
split  invoice  was  taken  up  with  the  Treasury  De¬ 
partment.  This  Department  stated  that  the  prac¬ 
tice  in  vogue  at  New  York  is  to  send  all  the 
cases  to  a  single  examiner  in  charge  of  a  floor 
space  designated  for  that  purpose,  and  all  the 
eases  covered  by  the  invoice  are  opened,  verified, 
repacked  and  closed  under  the  supervision  of  this 
one  examiner.  Wherever  possible,  samples  of  the 
merchandise  are  taken  from  this  room  to  the  regu¬ 
lar  examiner,  who  passes  the  line  of  merchandise, 
makes  the  appraisal  and  the  classification  upon 
the  sample.  When  this  cannot  be  done  the  regular 
examiner  is  called  by  telephone  to  the  room.  The 
Governing  Board  understands  that  this  plan  is  to 
be  adopted  in  Boston,  and  that  the  delays  which 
were  experienced  in  the  past  are  expected  to  be 
somewhat  minimized  as  a  result. 

The  fundamental  difficulty,  however,  in  making  a 
prompt  appraisal  of  goods  received  at  the  apprais¬ 
ers’  stores  is  that  there  is  not  room  enough  to 
properly  conduct  the  business  which  must  be  trans¬ 
acted.  Sites  for  the  erection  of  an  adequate 
building  have  already  been  purchased  and  an  ade¬ 
quate  appropriation  for  building  lies  in  the  hands 
of  the  Treasury  Department. 

In  co-operation  with  the  officials  of  the  Boston 
Opera;  a  letter  was  prepared  and  sent  to  every 
member  of  the  Retail  Trade  Board,  urging  him  to 
attend  at  least  one  performance  of  the  opera.  While 
the  results  were  not  as  satisfactory  as  it  was  hoped 
they  would  be,  a  considerable  number  of  the  mem¬ 
bers  of  the  Retail  Trade  Board  signified  their  in¬ 
tention  of  purchasing  tickets  for  use  by  themselves 
and  their  employes. 

The  “Get-Together”  Committee  organized  two 
dinners  which  were  enjoyed  by  a  large  number  of 
the  retailers  and  which  were  altogether  distinctive 
and  out  of  the  ordinary — a  beefsteak  dinner  and 
retailers'  barbecue. 

The  Committee  on  Insurance  investigated  the 
“no  smoking”  signs  placed  by  the  police  in  New 
York  according  to  their  judgment.  It  was  found 


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